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The Pros and Cons of an Internal Marketing Team

Associations Now

You may have lots of help from an outside agency, but building an internal marketing team could simplify your creative process. The pluses and minuses of taking your marketing function in-house. Should you build up your own marketing capabilities or stick with an outside agency or firm? Pro: Staying nimble.

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Music City, Our Thought Leadership Team, and a Memorable 2014

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We have been working with this team for three years, and it is a real privilege to collaborate with this outstanding group of association professionals. We covered topics ranging from online communities, the 2014 job market, gamification and Gen Y, and a try before you buy membership model, just to name a few. CAE Webinar Series.

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Reads of the Week: February 22, 2013

Reid All About it

With silos…Social media starts in a silo, usually in the marketing or PR department. Here’s more advice on how to help your organization’s content marketing efforts by encouraging more collaboration between your sales and marketing teams. Tagged: Content Marketing. Sound familiar? Give it a try!

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Reads of the Week: February 8, 2013

Reid All About it

Do you have a person in mind when you write marketing or social media copy? Something else that’s cool about Geoff – he’s a former editor of VeloNews and Bicycling magazines, plus he wrote the book, literally, on Team 7-Eleven , one of our earliest professional cycling teams in the U.S. writes for his imaginary friend Sue.

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Is Microsoft Teams More Popular Than Slack? Yes, but …

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Microsoft’s chat and collaboration service Teams now has a bigger daily user base than Slack, but their use cases differ in important ways—particularly in terms of how they integrate with other tools. Of course, Microsoft’s ownership of that competitor probably gave it a leg up in the market. Want to collaborate on a Dropbox file?

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Reads of the Week: March 8, 2013

Reid All About it

Grab your team, make them read this, and figure out how you’re going to start doing this next week. I spent Sunday through Tuesday at the Avectra Users & Developers Conference where I wrote a few blog posts: How to Apply Social to Membership & Marketing – Maddie Grant’s fishbowl session . This is conference week for me.

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Association Brain Food: 2.9.24

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Employers’ job market. TopClass LMS suggests putting a new spin on your membership and education marketing. In this employers’ job market, it’s tougher for members, customers and prospects to find a better position. More info/register.